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Making the Transition from Staff Member to Supervisor

Course Outline

Effectively and smoothly manage the change in your role and your responsibilities!

This seminar will prepare you for a complete change of responsibilities and help eliminate the anxiety that can accompany it. You’ll come away with a better understanding of what your boss, peers, staff and company expect from you. The invaluable set of tools in this seminar will prepare you to assume that all-important first supervisory role.

Who Should Attend

Newly promoted supervisors with less than one year of experience in this position; process and production supervisors.

How You Will Benefit

  • Understand your new role—from your perspective and that of your boss, peers and subordinates
  • Establish a presence and build credibility
  • Flex your individual style with ease
  • Delegate tasks to others, focusing on clear quality standards
  • Implement a feedback system
  • Tailor training to individual employees
  •  Understand what motivates peers, employees and superiors
  • Gain awareness of basic laws and regulations as they apply to performance reviews, including EOE and ADA
  • Gain techniques and strategies to manage your time and schedule your workload

What You Will Cover

    Letting Go of Your Former Role

  • How to manage the change process
  • Challenges and pitfalls to avoid
  • Expectations from your direct reports,your boss and your former peers

    Defining Your Behavioral Style

  • How to best communicate with bosses, peers or employees with different style preferences
  • Adjust personal behavioral styles to build better working elationships

    Setting Goals for Yourself and Others
  • The benefits of delegation
  • How to set SMART goals that allow you to measure progress accurately 
  • Project delegation and the potential barriers

    Legal Considerations for Supervisors
  • Basic laws governing performance review 
  • Your obligations as a supervisor

    Giving and Receiving Feedback
  • Supportive vs. corrective feedback
  • Guidelines to improve coaching relationships 
  • How to receive feedback constructively

    Training Your Employees
  • Adult learners and learning styles
  • Techniques to develop your employees and assess your training resources

    How to Motivate Effectively
  • Motivational tools to handle workplace issues
  • Relate motivation to styles, goal-setting and communication preferences

    Time Management
  • Important vs. urgent using the prioritizing model
  • How to manage and protect your time

Available Formats for Employees and Managers

At our training centre in downtown Toronto, 10.00AM to 5.00PM with one hour lunch break.

$1799 + HST per participant for a two day workshop,
$2499 + HST per participant for a three day workshop,

We offer a 10% discount for each additional participant.

We offer a 10% discount for each additional participant

For Soft Skill Workshops outside the GTA, please contact us at 647-271-3330 or e-mail your request to support@train4career.net for pricing giving information like number of participants, convenient dates etc.

Management & Supervisory Skills Workshops Toronto/Making the Transition Staff to Supervisor Workshop Toronto